The Book of Ballads
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Overview:
- Title: The Book of Ballads
- Author: Charles Vess, Teresa Nielsen Hayden
- Year: 2006
- ISBN-10: 0765312158
- Publisher: Tor
- Price: $14.95
- Pages: 192
- Binding: Trade Paperback
- Type: Anthology
- Title Reference: The Black Fox
- Notes:
- This is a collection of ballads illustrated by Charles Vess. The structure is a graphic (comic book style) story by an author and illustrated by Charles Vess that's loosely based on a ballad or poem. After each story is the original ballad/poem itself.
- The title page has "The Book of Ballads" and "By Charles Vess". The copyright page has "Edited by Teresa Nielsen Hayden". Based on this the publication has been entered as an anthology edited by both in ISFDB.
- The copyright is "Copyright © 2004 by Green Man Press".
- First printing that states "First Hardcover Edition: November 2004" over "First Trade Paperback Edition: March 2006" over "Printed in the United States of America" over "0 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1".
- The publisher is stated on the title page as "A Tom Doherty Associates Book • New York".
- Priced for sale in Canada at C$19.95 (backcover).
- The pages are numbered for the introduction and end-matter but not in the body of the publication. The page numbering for this publication record's contents was done by counting.
- The cover artist credit is stated on the back cover. A signature is not visible within the artwork.
- LCCN 2004059833 on copyright page.
- September 23, 2010: List prices reported as $14.95 on Amazon.com and C$16.95 on Amazon.ca. This implies a second or later printing as the first printing is $14.95 and C$19.95.